Heat Capacity of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas
| dc.creator | Kinast, J. | |
| dc.creator | Turlapov, A. | |
| dc.creator | Thomas, J. E. | |
| dc.date | 2004-09-10 | |
| dc.date | 2004-11-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:00:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:00:33Z | |
| dc.description | We report on the measurement of the heat capacity for an optically-trapped, strongly-interacting Fermi gas of atoms. In the experiments, a precise input of energy to the gas is followed by single-parameter thermometry. The thermometry determines a temperature parameter $\tilde{T}$ from the best fit of a Thomas-Fermi distribution with a fixed Fermi radius to the spatial density of the cloud. At $\tilde{T}=0.33$, we observe a transition between two patterns of behavior: For $\tilde{T}=0.33-2.15$, we find that the heat capacity closely corresponds to that of a trapped normal Fermi gas of atoms with increased mass. At low temperatures $\tilde{T}=0.04-0.33$, the heat capacity clearly deviates from normal Fermi gas behavior. | |
| dc.description | 14 pages, 2 figures Submitted to Science Magazine Related theory appears in cond-mat/0411090 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409283 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409283 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/24841 | |
| dc.subject | Other Condensed Matter | |
| dc.title | Heat Capacity of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas | |
| dc.type | text |